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Ha ha. Oh yeah, he also said something about Neda, Aung Sang Suu Kyi, and the american soldier.

"This award must be shared with everyone who strives for justice and dignity — for the young woman who marches silently in the streets on behalf of her right to be heard even in the face of beatings and bullets; for the leader imprisoned in her own home because she refuses to abandon her commitment to democracy; for the soldier who sacrificed through tour after tour of duty on behalf of someone half a world away; and for all those men and women across the world who sacrifice their safety and their freedom and sometime their lives for the cause of peace.

That has always been the cause of America. That’s why the world has always looked to America. And that’s why I believe America will continue to lead."

President Obama has been, and continues to be, one of the most eloquent voices to the greatness of America. Narrow minded haters led by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck find this to be the most infuriating thing about him.

So far Obama's smooth handling of this is making Kaus seem like a paranoid fraidy cat. I doubt winning a prestigious award will ever make someone look worse than complaining about who won a prestigious award. The natural human instinct to side with winners is going to beat the natural human instinct to hate on the undeserving every time. Its like winning the Superbowl on a terrible referee mistake. The mistake is a week story tops. The win lasts forever.

Actually, when I point out that Ann's best friend forever is a proponent of reparative therapy, Ann calls me a liar and deletes the post.

Even though Dr. Helen is a proponent of reparative therapy and has said that the American Psychiatric Society should be forced to give recognition to courses that teach reparative therapy, even though being gay has nothing to do with psychiatry.

Fair enough - it's Ann's blogs and she can delete those posts.

But Ann has never once deleted a homophobic remark on her blog, of which there have been plenty.

I won't try to psycho-analyze what's causing her homophobia although I could fathom a guess.

Let's see, now, Teddy Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a settlement to the Russo-Japanese War; George Marshall won it for the Marshall Plan and trying to negotiate peace between the Communists and the Kuomintang in China.

Bambi gets it for the first eleven days as President (nominations closed at the end of January, I believe).

Watching all the lefty delta males go all Alisnky over anyone who sees how silly this award is vindicates my first reaction, "This is a gag, right?".

And no, I don't have any direct evidence that Ann is homophobic, but her friends are. As are an awful lot of her commenters. And she has yet to call them on it. So she's either homophobic, or she's a wimp.

DTL, Sullivan is making a mistake airing a rumor for which he has little chance of finding confirmation. It's an arguable position that this reflects badly on him, and one can make that argument without needing to prove the parentage of Trig Palin.

The best evidence that Trig is not Bristol's baby is that Bristol's baby was born 8 months after Trig's birth. I don't need to resort to any homophobic ad hominen arguments to make that point.

We wouldn’t want to see any familial favoritism going on, so it’s a good thing both girls came in together (just like Jane and Michael Banks). And it’s a good thing each one said something equally cute and quotable, unprompted and in private. Otherwise, the whole story might look like nothing more than well-prepared fillet of bull.

Perhaps the most fascinating turn in this whole spectacle is this: Toby Keith -- yes, that Toby Keith, most famous for his song "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue / The Angry American" -- is slated to play the Nobel Peace Prize concert. I think my head just exploded (along with those of the Nobel committee). I hope he plays it.

I won't be one of the people who is ridiculing Obama for an award he never sought, never expected to get.The proper people to ridicule are the Norweigan Parliament, who appointed the cabal of ideological bozos that made the selection.

Them and the mindless Venerators - similar to those that worship the Sacred Parchment that is the One Perfect Document - be it the Constitution, Qu'ran, or Bible..

How many times have students or people following the media "wisdom" that such and such a person - from Saint Martin Luther King, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Al Gore, Desmond Tutu, to Arafat --is now a "Revered Figure"??? Simply because they have achieved elevation to the true Pantheon of Moral Goodness - those luminaries who are Nobel Peace Prize Winners!

Assuming Obama can quash his massive ego somewhat, he probably is having an "Oh, crap!" moment....As he can well expect this Award elevating him in the eyes of a small group of brainless ideologues picked by Norweigan MPs to dog him the rest of his time in office. What will Saint Barack do to bring Peace and happy meals to all? Certainly not send troops that might kill "noble brown peoples in Pashtunland"!! How will he "heal" matters of inner cities and black thugs in places like Chicago or Congoville with his Soothing, Soaring words??

Or bring tranquility to the ME? Save the noble Burmese? End Haitian poverty with a massive infusion of US wealth??

Too many critics will try and set him up for failure over an award he didn't seek, didn't deserve, and which is as much an exercise in stupidity as half their past awards since 1960.

Ruth Marcus writes in the WP -

Obama gets the award for, what, a good nine months? Or maybe a good two weeks -- the nominations were due Feb. 1. The other two sitting presidents who won the prize --Woodrow Wilson in 1919 for founding the League of Nations, Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 for negotiating an end to the Russo-Japanese War -- were in their second terms.

I imagine that Obama, when they woke him up this morning to deliver the news, grasped the bizarreness of it all. Back in 2006, when he was only a star senator, he mocked his instant celebrity at the Gridiron Dinner.

“I’ve been very blessed,” he said. “Keynote speaker at the Democratic Convention. The cover of Newsweek. My book made the best-seller list. I just won a Grammy for reading it on tape. And I've had the chance to speak not once but twice before the Gridiron Club. Really what else is there to do? Well, I guess, I could pass a law, or something.”

Ann -- question for you. On BHT you compared Obama to a child prodigy, and said that he kept getting awards that he didnt deserve. Please Ann, educate me here -- who deserves to be president ? And for however you answer, I'd love to also know how this informs your views on George Bush and Sarah Palin. cheers.